In 1996, the world was still digesting what Rage Against the Machine had done to it three years earlier. Their self-titled debut album had arrived like a grenade rolled under the door of mainstream ...
The most immediately notable aspect of Teen Suicide’s latest offering – ‘Nude Descending A Staircase Headless’ – is that the production value is great. This is worth pointing out as the band initially ...
The problem with naming your band Tired Of Fighting is that it is literally asking for a reviewer to list all the things they’re tired of. Let’s not do that. Let’s talk about their new record, ‘And ...
‘Did You Ask To Be Set Free?’ is a potent mixture of experience, ambition and grief. Imagine a broken heart buried in a pop song; imagine a dove; listen to the sound of hope.
Covering themes of generational trauma and toxic familial relationships, ‘Pain Travels’ seems a particularly apt title for the debut album of Leeds-based mathcore/post-hardcore quintet Love Rarely.
It’s Grade 2’s album launch show and we’re here to celebrate the music of 1977 with the future of the old school scene. As a crowd, we’re a tight fit into the venue, guys with Cock Sparrer skull ...
For the first time, it feels like we can discuss the Grade 2 sound as a product of their influences rather than just as a mashup of all their favourite things. Sure, ‘Cut Throat’ really, really sounds ...
Something has quietly shifted for Hot Mulligan. The Michigan five-piece have spent the better part of a decade building one of the most devoted fanbases in modern emo, song by song and tour by tour; ...
You hear it all the time. That same phrase. ‘They don’t make music like that anymore.” Honestly, they do. Whatever it is, whatever you like, there is a band out there somewhere doing your thing, you ...
Don Broco are now on the Dark Side. Gone is the whimsy that punctuated their earlier albums. They’ve kept the electronic hints, of course, but taken their sound in a distinctly heavier direction on ...
Poison The Well had a hand in establishing metalcore and its surge of popularity back in the early noughties. Though they never truly got their flowers or reached the same heights as some of their ...